Traveller is a science fiction roleplaying game, set in the forty-seventh century, the far future. In the time between the present day and the setting of the game; the human race expanded to the stars, ruled an empire taken in battle and collapsed back to the barbarism of the period known as the ‘Long Night’.

The best known edition of the game is set as one of the small pocket empires that weathered the Long Night starts to expand and reestablish an empire, the Third Imperium, culminating in the nominative present of the game set in early 1116.

This is an entirely subjective question. Nearly every version of the game is available either from FFE in compilation form or from an active license holder such as Mongoose.

Some of the OOP versions of the game are not available due to complications, but those are few.

It might be easiest to start with versions of the game currently in print.

However, since Traveller is largely a story-based game, books from any edition may be mixed and matched with any other edition. In fact, many fans really enjoy mixing materials from many different versions.

Marc Miller is the best known of the founders although there were a number of other gentlemen who were part of the initial founders. Some of the other much loved and fondly remembered early founders and contributors include:

With decades of history, dozens upon dozens of authors, and many editions, Traveller has quite a colorful history: It probably mirrors the history of the Emperors of the Third Imperium more than any of us would like to admit.